So I had an interesting day yesterday. By a sheer stroke of good luck and good fortune, I was able to communicate – albeit briefly – with one of my favorite TV stars from the past, and a writer whose work I currently enjoy reading. Let’s start with the actress. As you can imagine, being…
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So now I shall make drive-in speakers for my home computer
I’ve been having lots of fun with this drive-in speaker restoration concept, where I take old vintage aluminum drive-in speakers, restore the interior guts, repaint the exterior chassis, and either put them up for auction or use them in my personal life. Such begins my next project. Someone in Australia had a matched set of…
Read MoreThe “Lesbian Mafia” are coming for you!!
I cannot believe I’m actually blogging about this. But it’s too funny to pass up. So, in Yelm, Washington, somewhere near Olympia and an hour’s drive south of Seattle, a man was arrested after a fight in a Walmart parking lot. He insisted that he had been attacked by the “Lesbian Mafia,” who had conscripted…
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Empire State Plaza fireworks, 2020 Edition
So I’m submitting this awesome 2020 fireworks photo from the Empire State Plaza’s 4th of July celebration. And you’re looking at me as if I grew a second head. “Chuck Miller, don’t bullshit your readers,” you say to me. “Everybody knows that the Empire State Plaza 4th of July festivities were cancelled this year, due…
Read MoreWould you like some tomateos with your luttuce?
It’s morning in America, and I’m pissed off at my local Speedway gas station. Last Monday morning, I pumped some gas – no problem there – and then went inside to purchase some items; a couple of cans of Red Bull, some chips, and a slice of their breakfast pizza – which, by the way,…
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The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train won’t run in 2020…
Just when I thought that COVID-19 couldn’t mess enough with my world… Now it’s severely altered one of my favorite Christmastime traditions. For the past three years, I’ve photographed the brilliantly illuminated Canadian Pacific Holiday Train as it cruises through New York. Last year, I participated in my first-ever “train chase,” where I photographed the…
Read MoreTony Goldmark dog-walks Fox News, film at 11.
I first met Tony Goldmark at, at all places, a “Weird Al” Yankovic fan convention in 2000. Yes, there are such things. Yes, I went to more than one of them. Tony at that time was a very talented song parodist, and could compose some nerdcore with the best of them. Tony has a few…
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A Capital District-themed drive-in speaker: The Mohawk Drive-In in Bluetooth
Some time ago, I chronicled, step by step, how I took an old, beat-up drive-in speaker and turned it into a beautiful, Bluetooth-enabled speaker. Yeah, I can do things like that. So I tried again. Only this time, I had a specific purpose in mind. Walk with me. This is a vintage Simplex speaker. In…
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Hi, Beatrice!
At the current point in my life, although I would love to own a pet, I really can’t have one. Pets take a LOT of time and commitment, and although I appreciate those who CAN manage that relationship with their canines and felines, I know that I’m not able to provide that time at this…
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How to rebuild an old drive-in car speaker for modern times
As you might have read from various recent blog posts, I’ve been having fun at the local drive-in. I’ve taken photos there, I’ve captured fireworks there, and now I want to try something very special with a piece of drive-in iconography. I want to take one of those old car speakers – you know, the…
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